Looking at it now that I know, the whitelist doesn't seem to contain any games developed by other parties and published by Nintendo either. Majora's Mask is pretty conspicuous in its absence, but the whitelist doesn't cover Smash games, which have been on three of the shows on the Game Grumps channel, or Pokemon.

Is the whitelist meant to exclude only other games Nintendo developed, or their published games as well? All the games on the list seem to be Nintendo-owned and copyrighted IPs, but they also have exclusive license to distribute content from games they publish, that I'd assume the relevant dev studio is the copyright owner of.

Thanks for replying. Since looking up the policy I only have more questions though.

Sounds accurate to me. I've never been into rom hacks, so my original comment is just secondhand knowledge I picked up somewhere.

The text strings may even have had to be the same number of characters once translated, right? Without changing how many characters are supposed to be printed on screen, a longer string would begin rewriting characters already on-screen once it reached the character limit it's programmed with.

As far as I know, the speech in NES era Zelda games was super short and cryptic because interacting with an NPC in those games triggered a script that just printed the dialogue box and text straight on the screen. Press button, receive string of text. It wasn't until Zelda 3 that they had the beginnings of a more complex dialogue interface that scrolled text when you finished reading what was on screen, and let you make binary responses.

If elected by the vasty and just powers of chance as your made millionaire, I solemnly pledge to get myself a 3DS, possibly even a New 3DS if I'm feeling spendy, and Majora's Mask 3D. But I won't preorder it because reddit gets mad when you do that.

There's very little I don't like about the Zero series. IMO they all make better "sequels" to the first few X games than the latter games in that series. Beautiful art direction, tight gameplay, strong narrative. All things I felt the X-series started to lose right quick.